Improvement in buckles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEiiIcEo O. L. HOPSON AND H. P. BROOKS, OF WATEBBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,482, dated May 12, 1863.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, O. L. HOPSON and H. P. BROOKS, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and Improved Buckle; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference bein g had to the accompanying draw-l ings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figures l and 2 are front or face views of our invention 5 Fig. 3, a transverse section of the same, taken in the line a: x,.Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of that class of buckles which are designed to be used on garments and' art-icles pertaining thereto.

The object of the invention is to obtain a buckle of the kind specified which will be strong and durable, economically constructed out of a limited quantity of stock, and be comparatively small, or not monopolize as much space as those hitherto constructed.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, we will proceed to describe it.

, A represents the frame of the buckle, which is composed of three longitudinal bars, a a a, connected at their ends by cross-bars b, which may be of either straight or curved form. B B represent the prongs or tongues of the buckle, which are formed out of a single piece of wire, bent so as to have the prongs or tongues parallel with each other and at a suitable distance apart. The portion C of the wire, when the prongs or tongues are in contact with the frame A, bears on the front side of the centralbar, et, of the frame. This wire may pass the wire is shown as passing through holes in the central bar, and in Fig. 2 as being bent around it. The frame A may be struck or cut out of a single piece of metal plate, or it may be formed of a piece of wire bent in the form described. By this mode of construction a strong and durable buckle is obtained with but a limited amount of stock, and they may be made quite narrow.

The ordinary buckles for garments, being made of thin met-al, are veryliable to be broken or drawn apart, especially if the prongs or tongues are attached to the frame by joints or pivots. Buckles of this class require to be made of thin metal, and the great difculty to be'overcome in their construction is to obtain the requisite strength with lightness. By our mode of construction it is believed that the desired end is fully attained.

By having the prongs or tongues B constructed of one piece of Wire and secured to the buckle as shown much labor and stock is saved, as the wire may be purchased of the requisite size cut into required lengths, and then bent in proper form and applied to the buckle at a small expense.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by vLetters Patent, is

A buckle the pron'gs of which are made of one piece of wire, and being passed through holes in the center bar of the buckIe'rame, so bent that the bar connecting the said prongs shall form with them a joint upon said central of the bar frame, all substantially as herein shown and described.

O. L. HOPSON. H..P. BROOKS.

Witnesses M. W. RALsroN, JOHN W. WEBSTER. 

